Re: Hexotic in SALOME

As far as I know, Hexotic requires the installation of a commercial meshing package. Salome has only the capability to reference the third party commercial mesher Hexotic, if installed and licensed. Last year I contacted the company and got a short trial license. I was not able to get it working for my needs, but perhaps it would work for you.

Thanks

Re: Hexotic in SALOME

When one uses Hexotic as a SALOME plug-in, the generated is read into memory hence it can be shown in the 3D Viewer and it can be exported to a file in any format supported by SALOME. Thus you are not to care of importing .mesh and .meshb files when you use Hexotic in SALOME.

By the way, the next SALOME version will be able to import files produced by Hexotic.

Edward

Re: Hexotic in SALOME

As far as I know, Hexotic requires the installation of a commercial meshing package. Salome has only the capability to reference the third party commercial mesher Hexotic, if installed and licensed. Last year I contacted the company and got a short trial license. I was not able to get it working for my needs, but perhaps it would work for you.

Thanks

Hi Chaz,

Many thanks. Hexotic seems to be working for me. SALOME GUI doesn't have all the options that are available in Hexotic. I tried to run it from a terminal to explore the available options; however, I found that Hexotic outputs files in .mesh or .meshb formats which cannot be viewed in SALOME.

Mohammed

Re: Hexotic in SALOME

When one uses Hexotic as a SALOME plug-in, the generated is read into memory hence it can be shown in the 3D Viewer and it can be exported to a file in any format supported by SALOME. Thus you are not to care of importing .mesh and .meshb files when you use Hexotic in SALOME.

By the way, the next SALOME version will be able to import files produced by Hexotic.

Edward

Hi Edward,

I was able to invoke Hexotic from SALOME through its GUI to generate hexahedral mesh elements and view the mesh in the vtk viewer. However, in the GUI, I got only one option to set Hexotic parameters in terms of 'Nb. Hexes in Min. Level' and 'Nb. Hexes in Max. Level'. In fact, there are other options to control the hexahedral mesh through the command line, such as mins and maxs - controlling the minimum and maximum sizes of the cells, respectively.

Could you provide more info on how to use Hexotic as a SALOME plug-in from the command line? Is there any document providing the details?

Do you mean SALOME 6.5 would able to import files produced in Hexotic?